Mar 16, 2018 · Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at the age of 76, had lived with the crippling disease ALS for 55 years. How did he do it? Probably in no small part because he was rich, famous and...

Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking’s cause of death was likely amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that wears away at nerve and muscle function over time.

Jan 7, 2012 · Stephen Hawking turns 70 on Sunday, beating the odds of a daunting diagnosis by nearly half a century. The famous theoretical physicist has helped to bring his ideas about black holes and quantum...

Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking had a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Early-onset and slow-progressing, he was diagnosed at age 21 during his studies at the University...

Feb 24, 2023 · Stephen William Hawking is one of the most influential and inspirational figures of modern times. Diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, at the age of 21, he was told he had only a few years left to live.

Mar 14, 2018 · Professor Hawking had just turned 21 when he was diagnosed with a very rare slow-progressing form of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease (MND). He was at the end of his time at Oxford when he ...

Mar 14, 2018 · When he was diagnosed at 21 with a type of motor neurone disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Professor Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. But his death 55 years later has...

Hawking, a renowned physicist and best-selling author who famously studied black holes and whose life was depicted in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything, was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, in 1963.

Mar 14, 2018 · Hawking lived his entire adult life with the disease, and unlike those patients who experience cognitive impairment or dementia, Hawking continued to work as an astrophysicist and make major contributions to the study of black holes and space.

British physicist Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous sufferers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the fatal neurological disease that paralysed his body but did nothing to curb...